PEOCBEDINGS OF THE 



December 3rd, 1914. 

 Prof. E. B. PouLTON, P.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes o£ the Greneral Meeting of the 19th November, 

 1914, were read and confirmed. 



Phra Vanpruk Picharn, Mr. Henry Edmund Charles Campbell 

 Windle, and Mr. Madabusi Srinivasa Eamaswaini, M.A. (Calc), 

 wore proposed as Eellows. 



Mr. Paul Andries van der Bijl. M.A. (Cape), Mr. William 

 Wardlaw Thompson, E.Z.S., and Mr. Richard Cranfield Wren, 

 were elected Fellows. 



The following proposed alterations in the Bye-Laws, recom- 

 mended by tlie Council, w ere read from the Chair for the third 

 time, and confirmed by Ba]lot of the Eellows present : — 



Chap. XIII. Sect. 1, shall be repealed, and the following 

 substituted : — 



The General or Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be 

 held on the afternoons or evenings of such Thursdays from 

 November to June inclusive ns the Council may decide. 



Due notice of the days and hours of meeting shall be 

 given to every Fellow whose address is known. 



The President announced the death of Dr. Mordecai Cubitt 

 Cooke, A.L.S. 



Mr. E. C. McLean, B.Sc, gave an account of " An ecological 

 iourney in South Americn," illustrating the same by a series of 

 lantern-slides from ])hotographs taken by him, from Pernambuco, 

 Eio de Janeiro, the Falkland Islands, Valparaiso, the transandean 

 rnilway, and Buenos Aires. 



The discussion which followed was maintained by Prof. 

 J. B. Farmer, Dr. Eendle, the Eev. T. R. R. Stebbing, and 

 Mr. AVorsdell, the lecturer briefly replying. 



Mr. Cteil AVest, B.Sc, F.L.S., explained the main points of 

 a paper written liy him in collaboration with Mr. Hisaxoshi 

 Takeda, " On Isoetes japonica^ A. Br." 



Mr. W. C. Worsdell contributed a few additional remarks. 



The President announced that the next meeting would be held 

 on Thursday, 17th December, at Five o'clock in the afternoon. 



